Button



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G. K. WEBSTER.

BUTTON.

No. 356,386. Patented Jan. 18, 1887 WM f m/ pm c 259 """lllllllllll'll I .I l HI 0 N. PETERS. l mb-Lithographe Washmglou. uv c rrEn SrA'rEs GEORGE K. WEBSTER, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356.386 dated January 18, 1887.

, Application filed November 8, 1886. Serial No. 218,296.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE K. WEEs'rER, of North Attleborough, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buttons; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to that class of detachable buttons in which hinged arms are used in the place of the ordinary shoe, but it is also applicable to that class of bracelets in which the arms are hinged to an ornamental head or center-piece; and the invention may therefore be said to consist of a new spring-hinge connection for the arms of buttons and bracelets.

The invention is a new adaptation of the invention shown in Letters Patent of the United States granted to me on the 18th day of April, 1882, No. 256,775.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of a button with the top plate re moved. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the buttoncap with the arms removed and the coveringplate in place. Fig. 3 is a section on line as m of Fig. 1, the application of the principle to a bracelet shown in dotted line. Figs. at and 5 represent details, and Fig. 6 is a section on line 3 y of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A represents the head of the button, butit may also represent an ornamental head or center-piece of a bracelet. This head is composed of any suitable ornamental upper face and an under face composed of a metal plate struck up to form a cup adapted to hold the action. This cup-shaped part is marked a. In thebottom of this cup, which constitutes the lower face, are two rectangular holes, 1 1, preferably arranged,'as shown, in echelon, and through these the spring-arms are inserted.

Fig. 3 shows the spring-arms of a button. (Marked B B.) The hinged end of these arms is formed with two plain faces, as such arms are usually made. The point of novelty here consists in the manner of hinging these arms. Near the end, on each side, they are provided with small holes or recesses 2, to receive the pintles on which they are pivoted. These pin- (No model.)

tles (marked 0'0) are formed in a half-disk or plate, 0. This half-disk is out out of sheet metal with the pintles integral, and with an opening to receive the end of the arm, and a the spring-plate bearing upon the face of one arm and the other half of the spring-plate bearing upon the face of the other arm'. The edge of the cup is then beaten or swaged. down to hold the spring-plate in place, and the whole is then ready to be attached to any suitable ornamental surface.

The arms shown in Fig. 3 are adapted to a button being held by one face bearing against the spring inthe position shown in Fig. 3, in which they are ready to be inserted through the button-holes. They are held by the other face in the position to which they are spread for holding the button after the arms have been inserted in thefabric.

Fig, 3 shows in dotted linesthe same construction applied to a bracelet.

I claim as my invention In combination, the arms having the flat bearing-faces upon their hinged ends and recesses 2in the ends, a plate having openings to receive the ends of the arms and formed with pintles c, fitted to the recesses in the arms, a cup or plate, as a, having openings through which the arms are inserted, and a springplate adapted to bear upon the ends of the arms, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing'witnesses.

' GEO. K. WEBSTER. Witnesses:

FRED B. BYRAM, A. O. BAILEY. 

